Sex dating in mounds illinois

At this age, “consent” is a legal term, not a factual term.

To be blunt, a 17 year old boyfriend who touches, for his sexual gratification , the breasts of his 16 year old girlfriend has committed a sex crime, which could put him on the Illinois sex offender registration list.

Much of the evidence in age of consent cases tends to be circumstantial.

Based on the specific details of your case and the strength of the prosecution’s evidence, former prosecutor Steven Haney will advise you about your legal options and give you his best recommendation with regard to negotiating a plea or fighting the charges in court.

An affirmative defense to any sex crime where the “victim” is under the age of consent is that the accused reasonably believed that the “victim” was of legal age.

In other words, the accused had a valid reason to believe that the other persons age was at, or beyond, the legal age of consent.

Some of these laws include: Aggravated Criminal Sexual Assault – when a person under the age of 17 has sex with a minor under the age of 9, or uses force or threat of force to have sex with a minor at least 9 years old, but under the age of 13.

Predatory Criminal Sexual Assault of a Child – when a person 17-years-old or older has sex with a minor under the age of 13.

Illinois has multiple laws in place to protect minors from sexual exploitation.

Because of this, many teenagers find themselves in situations in which they are near in age to each other, but still technically violating Illinois law.

For example, an 18-year-old high school senior having sexual relations with a 16-year-old high school junior could be found guilty of criminal sexual abuse. In Illinois, when a person commits a sexual act with someone under the age of 17, but over the age of 13, and the person is less than 5 years older than the minor, he or she is guilty of criminal sexual abuse – even if both participants believed the sex was consensual.

However, not all sex-related crimes are as clear-cut – such as the crimes commonly referred to as “statutory rape.” When most people use the phrase “statutory rape,” they are usually not referring to the crimes committed on the very young or vulnerable minors referenced above, but are instead referencing situations in which high-school aged children have consensual sexual relations with someone at or over the age of 17.

The statutory rape laws, or the age of consent laws, in Illinois revolve around the presumption that anyone under the age of 17 cannot consent to sexual acts.